Graysen
#7,133 for girls in 2025, 15 births · #1,388 for boys in 2025, 132 births
Given to boys 84.6% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2016 · 354 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,384since 1989
Graysen over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #7,133 | 15 | #1,388 | 132 |
| 2024 | #5,962 | 20 | #1,286 | 153 |
| 2023 | #5,248 | 24 | #1,105 | 192 |
| 2022 | #5,172 | 25 | #1,007 | 221 |
| 2021 | #6,414 | 18 | #929 | 243 |
| 2020 | #4,358 | 31 | #902 | 249 |
| 2019 | #4,909 | 27 | #813 | 280 |
| 2018 | #3,853 | 38 | #723 | 331 |
| 2017 | #4,576 | 30 | #763 | 307 |
| 2016 | #4,250 | 34 | #698 | 354 |
| 2015 | #4,295 | 33 | #831 | 270 |
| 2014 | #4,269 | 34 | #870 | 253 |
| 2013 | #3,703 | 41 | #1,031 | 187 |
| 2012 | #3,523 | 45 | #973 | 206 |
| 2011 | #5,207 | 26 | #943 | 210 |
| 2010 | #5,977 | 22 | #1,059 | 181 |
| 2009 | #6,091 | 22 | #1,511 | 110 |
| 2008 | #4,268 | 36 | #1,655 | 93 |
| 2007 | #4,299 | 35 | #1,795 | 81 |
| 2006 | #4,265 | 34 | #1,840 | 74 |
| 2005 | #4,373 | 31 | #2,614 | 42 |
| 2004 | #6,216 | 19 | #3,636 | 25 |
| 2003 | #5,586 | 21 | #3,976 | 21 |
| 2002 | #4,280 | 29 | #4,188 | 19 |
| 2001 | #6,956 | 15 | #3,143 | 28 |
| 2000 | #5,151 | 22 | #3,150 | 27 |
| 1999 | #4,718 | 23 | #4,341 | 16 |
| 1998 | #7,532 | 12 | #4,413 | 15 |
| 1997 | #5,417 | 18 | #3,738 | 18 |
| 1996 | #11,807 | 6 | #4,878 | 12 |
| 1995 | #7,041 | 12 | #3,693 | 17 |
| 1994 | — | #8,800 | 5 | |
| 1993 | — | #6,816 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Graysen! It came in at #7,905, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1989–1992, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Graysen is popular in 2012
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Idaho#396 · 1 in 1,619
- Wisconsin#420 · 1 in 2,481
- Washington#477 · 1 in 2,763
- Minnesota#528 · 1 in 3,462
- Oregon#580 · 1 in 3,614
Best ever in a state: #191 in South Dakota, 2016.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Idaho | #396 | 5 | 1 in 1,619 |
| Wisconsin | #420 | 11 | 1 in 2,481 |
| Washington | #477 | 13 | 1 in 2,763 |
| Minnesota | #528 | 8 | 1 in 3,462 |
| Oregon | #580 | 5 | 1 in 3,614 |
| Utah | #609 | 6 | 1 in 3,610 |
| Michigan | #623 | 11 | 1 in 4,331 |
| Missouri | #701 | 6 | 1 in 5,292 |
| Indiana | #704 | 7 | 1 in 5,096 |
| Colorado | #753 | 5 | 1 in 5,430 |
| Ohio | #870 | 8 | 1 in 7,470 |
| North Carolina | #963 | 6 | 1 in 8,426 |
| California | #995 | 21 | 1 in 10,976 |
| Texas | #1,135 | 15 | 1 in 11,843 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,172 | 5 | 1 in 12,046 |
| Florida | #1,177 | 8 | 1 in 11,495 |
| New York | #1,331 | 8 | 1 in 13,038 |
| Illinois | #1,352 | 5 | 1 in 13,303 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Graysen
- 102 spots since 2024 (#1,286 → #1,388)
- 486 spots since 2020 (#902 → #1,388)
- 557 spots since 2015 (#831 → #1,388)
- Biggest jump: 161 spots in 2014 (#1,031 → #870)
- Biggest drop: 90 spots in 2019 (#723 → #813)
- Debuted 1989
- Peaked 2016 at #698 (354 births)
- Births halved by 2024, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 10 yrs · run 2014–2021
- Highest: 1 in 5,361 boys born in 2016 were named Graysen (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 12,940 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 58.8% of all boys named Graysen (2,579) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2003, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 5 | #7,905 (1989) | #7,905 |
| 1990s | 90 | #3,693 (1995) | #5,240 |
| 2000s | 520 | #1,511 (2009) | #2,751 |
| 2010s | 2,579 | #698 (2016) | #870 |
| 2020s | 1,190 | #902 (2020) | #1,103 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Graysen in 2012
Top girls' names in 2012
Top boys' names in 2012
More about 2012
girls
1,761,053 girls got a published name in 2012; 1 in 39,135 of them was named Graysen, which outranked 82.0% of the 19,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,464Taelor46
- #3,464Tru46
- #3,464True46
- #3,523Graysen45
- #3,523Aayla45
- #3,523Abbi45
- #3,523Acadia45
- #3,583Adelie44
- #3,583Adrionna44
- #3,583Agatha44
Tied with 59 names at #3,523; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,896,946 boys got a published name in 2012; 1 in 9,208 of them was named Graysen, which outranked 93.2% of the 14,250 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).